Last Notes
I think you’re definitely onto something there. It’s probably deeper than that also, and has a lot to do with aversion to volatility, and the perception that everyone who got into bitcoin years ago has already benefited the most from it and there’s nothing left for anyone new.
My ongoing quest for sovereign zaps....
we've got a wireguard tunnel going back to my start9 now
TBF my clanker did a pretty good job getting it set up
CRYPTOGRAPHY IS MATH, BUT CUSTODY IS ALWAYS PHYSICS
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This overturns how most people think about keys. We talk about cryptography as pure numbers: primes, curves, one-way functions. And the math really does live there. But the math was never the thing you had to protect. The math is public. Security rests on a single physical fact: that one number is known to you and to no one else. It is a PHYSICAL secret, embodied somewhere: charge in a memory cell, marks on a steel plate, neurons in your brain, and wherever it is embodied, it can in principle be reached.
WHAT HOLDING A BITCOIN KEY ACTUALLY MEANS
When people say they "hold" a key, the language smuggles in a comforting abstraction, as if you are actually holding the key. You aren't. There is nothing to grip. What you hold is exclusive physical control over the matter the key is written into.
Self-custody is taking a piece of knowledge and finding a region of physical reality your adversaries cannot enter, and you put the knowledge there. A seed phrase in titanium is knowledge hidden in metal and geography. A memorized passphrase is knowledge hidden in the inside of your skull. The difference between a coin that is safe and a coin that is stolen is entirely a fact about physical access.
This is why holding Bitcoin feels strangely primal. You are doing something our ancestors would recognize: you have something valuable, and you are hiding it from rivals who would take it. The act, securing knowledge from other minds by controlling the physics of where it sits, is ancient.
WHY THIS LEADS STRAIGHT INTO TEEs
Seen this way, the purpose of a Trusted Execution Environment snaps into focus. A TEE tries to build a hiding place inside the computer itself, a walled region of silicon even the machine's owner cannot enter.
But here is the fundamental problem, and it is physics, not engineering. The whole premise of a TEE is that the attacker already owns the hardware. That is the entire point, you are trying to keep a secret from the person holding the machine in his hands. And a secret embedded in matter your adversary possesses is not protected. It is merely expensive to get at. Given enough time, he gets in, decaps the chip, probes the cell, and gets the secret key. Computing on the secret only speeds this up, leaking it continuously and often remotely and thus side channel attacks are born. But even a key sitting perfectly still falls eventually. Stillness was never the protection. Being out of his reach was.
IF THE ATTACKER POSSESSES THE MATTER, THE SECRET IS FORFEIT. TIME DOES THE REST.
A possible answer is to encrypt the data. But notice what that does: encrypting the key produces a new key, which must itself be held somewhere, in some device, that someone must defend. You have not solved the problem. You have moved it. And you can move it again, and again, and it never bottoms out. The regress is infinite. Eventually some root secret sits in plain physical reality, defended by nothing but control of the matter it lives in. You cannot encrypt your way out of physics, because every lock just hands you one more key to hide.
This is exactly why decentralization matters. Splitting a key or knowledge across many independent operators is not a way to finally win the physics in one place. It is a graceful surrender to the fact that any single device, given to an attacker, eventually falls. So you scatter the knowledge across many fortresses held by many hands, and force an attacker to win the physics everywhere at once.
BOTH COLBY AND CALLE ARE RIGHT, ABOUT DIFFERENT HALVES OF THE TRUTH.
Colby is correct at the limit: whoever physically possesses the matter a key lives in can, given time, get at it. There is no law of physics that protects a secret embedded in hardware your adversary holds in his hands, only the cost and the hours required to pry it out.
But Calle is correct about everything short of that limit, which is where most real security actually lives. Cryptography almost never makes an attack impossible; it makes it expensive. Bitcoin itself is not theoretically unbreakable,, it is simply so costly that no one even tries.
A TEE is the same bargain in silicon: not an impregnable vault, but a way to raise the price of reaching the secret high enough that possessing the device is no longer enough to make it worth the effort.
So the two views don't conflict, they compose. Colby names the ceiling: that possession eventually wins, and Calle names the game we actually play in: continually raising the cost so that hopefully "eventually" never arrives.
Congratulations @nprofile…f95z on this fantastic work, and thank you.
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i keep eating meat but never seem to inflate! unless you count muscle mass ;)
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美国富豪们应该参与捐款给“川普账户”。这个事情是给全美的儿童（未来）建立股票账户，
2025年到2028年，4年间出生的美国儿童，美国政府给他们的股票账户直接送一千美金，用于买指数基金。
美国政府鼓励企业雇主每年给员工孩子的股票账户打钱俩千五免税，也鼓励人们给孩子账户打五千，也是计入免税。
购买纳指数年化20%，四年翻倍。基本上这些美国孩子成年就有几十万美元了，
这个政策帮助了许多美眉年轻人，也帮助了美国股市和美国企业。也让美国全民必须关注股市。川普，实施这政策就是为美国儿童前途着想，
戴尔Dell公司老板夫妻俩捐献62.5亿美金，给部分相对更穷的孩子账户250美金，缩减下一代的起点差距。美国富豪们应该像戴尔公司老板这样，关爱美国儿童就是关爱美国的未来。
川普，真天才，竟然想出来这么好政策。这政策美国人反对吗？有孩子的家庭会反对美国政府为所有家庭孩子提供川普政府股票账户吗？看看，美国哪些人反对这政策？
Generate fresh npubs on both sides generated in white noise.
Two days remain for the Oshi V2 logo tee pre orders.
Will only print once. Snag it while you can.
Thank you everyone who has so far, super cool 🤞🏼❤️
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You’d find Tom Campbell (MBT) of interest
Am I the only one who read the whole second image, twice?
"...he had a great cock (I saw it)"
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Sorry I’m not for sale bro.
I don’t know how I didn’t manage to put a space in between the dot and the t in try.
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Some say Bitcoin is the future of money, other say it’s Monero but we all know 榮耀歸於習近平主席和中華人民共和國！西方帝國主義的崩潰迫在眉睫。.
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Que desgraça é essa? Hahahahah 😂
📰 **In this week's issue:**
🗞️ **BREAKING**
Bitcoin Flash Crash Follows Leaked Fed Call on Self-Custody Ban
A secret recording just detonated the crypto market. The battle over your right to hold Bitcoin has moved from whispers to all-out war.
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I have no idea what that means lol
This is what it says on primal.
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Found it! Thank you, sir!
can someone test zap me plz?
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I didnt calculate it wrong, right?
And assuming I did, I think it's still the case that even if limited to a single round, you'd apply the same logic.
But yes, if you're talking about avoiding ruin, bet sizing over many rounds is a consideration. Not to mention the right tail is verrrry slow. If you truncate the game to 256 tosses, you could win astronomical amounts but would only wanna pay up to 256 bucks a round
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I’ve gotten into a lot of Nostr Alphas/Betas by breaking software 🙃.
The devs either love me, or hate me but they know they need me because I break so much software unintentionally it’s not even funny.
One thing is if I knew coding I’d be able to break it even faster but I’d also be able to patch it, unfortunately I don’t 😔✊.